SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 2Abolition of magistrates' courts committees: transfers

Part 1Property transfer schemes

Stamp duty

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1

Stamp duty is not chargeable in respect of a transfer or grant effected under or in accordance with a property transfer scheme.

2

No instrument made or executed for the purposes of such a transfer or grant is to be treated as duly stamped unless—

a

it has, in accordance with section 12 of the Stamp Act 1891, been stamped with a particular stamp denoting that it is not chargeable with that duty or that it is duly stamped, or

b

it is stamped with the duty to which it would be liable, apart from this paragraph.